Sunday, May. 02, 2004 - 2:10 pm
Um... I'm sorry.
This relationship just isn't working for me.
I'm at www.dailypreciousness.org now. So change that bookmark.
My nephew had to do a biographical report on Stonewall Jackson using a puppet. He constructed one. The sock puppet had a detachable arm, since Jackson lost his arm in battle.
During his performance in front of the class, my nephew delivered a biographical essay in a first person narrative puppet show. At the dramatic moment in the story when Jackson loses his arm, my nephew yanks off the puppet's limb and has red yarn and red glitter pour out of the open wound. The performance brings to mind the understated splendor of a Noh performance, with a scarlet ribbon standing in for spilled blood.
But the teacher only gave him a C – despite the fact that the puppet bled glitter! I mean, how many times in your life do you see something – anything – bleed red glitter? (Nothing bleeds glitter, outside of a drag queen or perhaps somebody with a severe sinus infection, of course!)
